Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy

This book presents an innovative new way of thinking about transmission media: through the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor. It explores a strikingly diverse range of types of transmission, including the circulation of money, the translation of languages, angelic visitations, the spread of...

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Beteilige Person: Krämer, Sybille (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Recursions
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524990
Zusammenfassung:This book presents an innovative new way of thinking about transmission media: through the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor. It explores a strikingly diverse range of types of transmission, including the circulation of money, the translation of languages, angelic visitations, the spread of infectious disease, the transferences that occur in psychoanalysis, the act of bearing witness, and the development of cartography. In each case, Sybille Krämer uses the insight offered by the metaphor of the messenger to help explain and explore the field of media philosophy and the ways that mediation shapes our understanding of the world around us
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
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ISBN:9789048524990
DOI:10.1515/9789048524990